{"id":15159,"date":"2025-01-04T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=15159"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:15:09","slug":"spacex-prepares-starships-seventh-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/spacex-prepares-starships-seventh-flight-test\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX prepares Starship&#8217;s seventh flight test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>SpaceX is preparing to launch the seventh flight test of its giant Starship rocket, the company said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming flight test will launch a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship&#8217;s first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared toward ship catch and reuse, and launch and return the Super Heavy booster.<\/p>\n<p>A block of planned upgrades to the Starship upper stage will debut on this flight test, bringing major improvements to reliability and performance, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has redesigned the rocket&#8217;s propulsion system, including a 25 percent increase in propellant volume, the vacuum jacketing of feedlines, a new fuel feedline system for the vehicle&#8217;s Raptor vacuum engines, and an improved propulsion avionics module controlling vehicle valves and reading sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulators while in space, according to SpaceX.<br \/>\nSpaceX&#8217;s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket, collectively referred to as Starship, represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon, Mars and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Starship plays a key role in NASA. It is the vehicle that NASA selected to carry astronauts on the final leg of their trip to the moon during a mission called Artemis III, currently planned for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch the seventh flight test of its giant Starship rocket, the company said on Friday. The upcoming flight test will launch a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship&#8217;s first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared toward ship catch and reuse, and launch and return the Super Heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions\/15160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}